Man Rescued After Getting Lost and Spending the Night on Snowy Mount Seymour, BC A man was rescued Sunday after spending the night lost on Mount Seymour, near Vancouver, BC. Rescuers found him standing in a creek by a waterfall at around 1,800-feet. Related: Young Autistic Boy Rescued After Spending Two Days Lost on Freezing Mountain The man, who had been walking for over 24-hours, did suffer some lower leg injuries and mild hypothermia but […] Climbing CragBrains | June 22, 2020 0 Comments
Drug Used by Climbers to Enhance Performance Could be COVID-19 Breakthrough We’ve Been Searching For A drug used by the climbing community to ward off altitude sickness symptoms could be a major breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone has the potential to help save the lives of patients seriously ill with the virus, experts in the UK claim, and so far is the only drug known to reduce mortality. Known […] Climbing CragBrains | June 16, 2020 0 Comments
16-Year-Old Bouldering World Champion Killed in 500-Foot Cliff Fall Teenage climbing sensation Luce Douady has been killed in a fall while exploring cliffs near her home in southeastern France, the French Mountain Climbing Federation (FFME) reported this morning. Related: Pro Climber Who Had Skied Everest Dies After Fall In Alps The 16-year-old girl was climbing with friends when she slipped and fell almost 500-feet on to an exposed section […] Climbing CragBrains | June 16, 2020 0 Comments
Lone Climber Survives Horrific 1,300-Foot Fall Down Colorado Mountain A climber was lucky to survive when he fell 1,300-feet down a Colorado mountain before slamming hard into a rock field. The 22-year-old man suffered serious lower-body injuries and had to be rescued by Black Hawk helicopter from the side of 12,821-foot Mount Neva in the Indian Peaks Wilderness. He was attempting to climb the technical Juliet couloir. The lone […] Climbing CragBrains | June 12, 2020 0 Comments
VIDEO: Breathtaking: K2 – Climbing The World’s Most Dangerous Mountain With Squaw Valley, CA Based Guides [arve url="https://youtu.be/cvFt2Xcuois"] CragBrains | June 5, 2020 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Shasta Mountain Guides Is Back Leading Summit Climbs and Seminars on Mt. Shasta, CA This post first appeared on the Shasta Mountain Guides website and was written by Chris Shasta Mountain Guides is back leading summit climbs and seminars on Mt. Shasta! We are open and taking reservations and have developed new operating guidelines to compensate for the physical distancing requirements. After a delayed start we led our first trips of the new season […] Backcountry CragBrains | June 5, 2020 0 Comments
VIDEO: “Literally Escaping Death By Inches” | Huge Lake Tahoe Rope Swing Gone Wrong… All I can say is I’m happy to be alive. The forces on this swing are so gnarly, and I could barely reach the handle of the rope before stepping off to send it. As soon as I dropped in I instantly knew I didn’t have the grip I needed to complete the full ark of the swing. Lucky I […] CragBrains | June 4, 2020 1 Comment
Mount Whitney Will Remain Closed as Inyo National Forest, CA Provide Wilderness Permits From June 1st In a Facebook post yesterday the Inyo National Forest announced they will be providing wilderness permits through a virtual process, beginning June 1st, 2020, with the exception of Mount Whitney. Related: Inyo County, CA Sheriff’s Office: Do Not Take Part in High-risk Outdoor Activity Mount Whitney day and overnight permits are being canceled one week in advance of the hiking […] Climbing CragBrains | May 26, 2020 0 Comments
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